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Election Integrity Project California Takes Bold Action in Court to Defend Secure and Transparent Elections
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ADVOCATES FOR FAITH & FREEDOM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: thursday, NOVEMBER 14, 2024
CONTACT: Nicole Velasco at
media@faith-freedom.COM
Election Integrity Project California Takes Bold Action in Court to Defend Secure and Transparent Elections
For Immediate Release, Murrieta, CA – On Tuesday, the Superior Court ruled on an Ex Parte Application filed by the Election Integrity Project California (“EIPCa”), represented by our firm, requesting an expedited hearing on the merits of its petition for peremptory writ of mandate. EIPCa is seeking decisive judicial action to address critical issues in the administration of California’s recent elections. The application calls on the court to issue a ruling before December 5, 2024, to ensure that election procedures align with EIPCa’s commitment to ensure fair elections as well as voter trust and integrity.
EIPCa’s petition names the California Secretary of State and election officials from several counties, including Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, Kern, and Tulare. The petition challenges the adequacy of election oversight and highlights each county’s role in maintaining voter rolls, processing ballots, and reporting results. EIPCa believes this oversight is essential to addressing procedural inconsistencies and maintaining Californians’ faith in the election process.
“EIPCa remains committed to safeguarding Californian citizen’s constitutional right to free, fair, honest and transparent elections,” said Linda Paine, President of EIPCa. “By ensuring accurate voter rolls and integrity in the processing and counting of ballots, EIPCa continues to empower citizens through education and oversight of the election process with the goal of restoring integrity to the election process.”
“For too long, systemic election concerns have gone unaddressed, but this petition is a positive step toward reform,” stated Advocates attorney, Robert Tyler. “Our legal team is prepared to continue advocating for election integrity across the state.”
EIPCa has requested that the Court appoint a special master to oversee each respondent’s actions to ensure adherence to legal election processes. The Court is considering the request but has noted that it must first hear any opposition filed by the Respondents by Friday, November 15. Given the urgency of these issues, the Court has declined to set a hearing date on shortened notice but will consider the request based solely on the submitted briefs. This streamlined process ensures that the petition’s claims will be addressed promptly.
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Press Release | EIPCa Exposes Election Discrepancies and Demands Accountability for Next Election
Press Release | EIPCa Exposes Election Discrepancies and Demands Accountability for Next Election
ADVOCATES FOR FAITH & FREEDOM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, October 31, 2024
CONTACT: Nicole Velasco
NVELASCO@FAITH-FREEDOM.COM
Murrieta, CA— Yesterday, in a decisive move to ensure the accuracy and integrity of California’s upcoming elections, Advocates for Faith & Freedom, on behalf of Election Integrity Project California (“EIPCa”) filed a Writ of Mandate against California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and various county elections officials. The filing comes after EIPCa’s thorough audit of election data from the November 2022 elections revealed major discrepancies, including instances of multiple votes being counted for individual voters. This legal action seeks to compel election officials to perform their legally mandated duties, ensuring that every vote in the November 2024 election is lawfully cast and accurately counted.
EIPCa’s audit showed an unexplained discrepancy of 43,625 votes between the certified election results and the data provided by the Secretary of State’s office. “We are not here to challenge election laws or the results of past elections,” stated Advocates Attorney, Robert Tyler. “We are simply demanding that the laws on the books be followed, and that every vote in the 2024 election be accounted for correctly. This is about protecting the fundamental right to vote and ensuring election integrity in California.”
“A Republic if you can Keep it” was the response of Ben Franklin when asked what type of government the founders created. EIPCa and Advocates are working together to Keep the Republic by addressing election procedures that failed to prevent individual voters from casting multiple votes,” said Linda Paine, President of EIPCa.
The Writ calls for the appointment of a neutral special master to oversee the certification of results to prevent further discrepancies and to uphold the transparency promised by the California Voter Bill of Rights. EIPCa remains committed to holding election officials accountable and ensuring that every eligible voter has confidence that their vote will be counted.
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Advocates for Faith & Freedom is a non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting constitutional and religious liberty in the courts. Our mission is to engage in cases that will uphold our religious liberty and America’s heritage and to educate Americans about our fundamental constitutional rights.
Pastor and Congregation Put Under Government Surveillance
Pastor and Congregation Put Under Government Surveillance
Ventura County Is Taking It Too Far
Last week, on a 3-5 vote by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, Pastor Rob McCoy and his church were targeted to prevent them from worshiping together inside their sanctuary.
Pastor Rob McCoy, who signed our Declaration of Essentiality and opened his church for services on May 31, 2020, has publicly expressed the church’s belief that neither the state nor county has any business prohibiting indoor worship services based on irrational fear of COVID-19.
Despite the Superior Court Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order, regular indoor church services at Godspeak Calvary Chapel were held on Sunday morning, August 9, 2020 with Pastor Rob at the pulpit. The support from the church members and the Christian community was remarkable. Hundreds from across the state and even from out of state attended three church services, some from the parking lot due to the full capacity inside.
The very next morning, the County of Ventura filed for an additional “emergency” restraining order seeking to authorize and direct the Sheriff to enter onto the church property to prevent any further worship services because these worship services were “endangering the general public and all residents of Ventura County”.
It was then that we discovered that the County had sent two officials to surveil Godspeak Calvary Chapel and its individual members and guests while they attended Sunday’s worship services. One report even stated, “Many people were seen hugging and shaking hands, and standing in close groups talking together for extended periods of time.” Imagine that.
Advocates’ President, Robert Tyler, commented, “I never thought I would see the day where local officials give testimony in the American court system that has the ring of a communist inquisition…” Read our full Press Release here.
Godspeak Church desires to conduct a full evidentiary trial where it is able to present experts who will prove that the underlying basis for the continued state of emergency and that the quarantining of healthy people is unjustified and irrational. Advocates pro bono lawyers have spent hours to researching data and are ready to defend Pastor Rob and his church against this government authoritarianism – all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.